THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 28. 1814.
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(abuse of their privileges at. tbe. ex
pense of the public -and legitimated
competition and then submit their
unscrambling to the order of the
court. This was anti-trust regu
lation and unscrambling' by the
supreme court.
Woodrow .Wilson's plan Is . dif
ferent.; It advocates trust regula
tion by prevention. It" protects
the eggs of the shareholder and
the shipper from the scrambling
process" and makes the epigram of
Morgan-meaningless.
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THE PROHIBITION TRUCE
When You Go Away
Have The Journal sent to
your Summer address.
We must not Btlnt
Our necessary actions, lit the
fear,
To copo malicious censurers;
which however.
A ravenous fishes, do a ves
sel follow
That is new -trimm'd.
Shakespeare.
THE separation on the initiative
of the Anti-Saloon league of
the dry issue from politics
and party i- candidates is fit
ness, "i i y - i. -
It is a good thing from the dry
viewpoint, lit-is a good thing'
deny , him the right to - witness
races in which danger of death
was always near. - Ohio's supreme
court will decide whether in grant
ing the right to see such races the'
insurance company reserved to it
self ; the right to : restrict action
such as is expected : of men under
Buch : circumstances. In other
words, does the law, confer upon
insurance companies the right to
make cowards. of men?
- Perhaps; the,-; Cleveland young
man used poor judgment in sacri
ficing his. own life to save that
of others. ' But the world's his
tory shows that such stuff Is what
heroes are made of. Shall .this be
a nation without heroes because it
it an era of accident insurance?
Whatever the Ohio supreme court
may hold in the Cleveland man's
case. It is certain that America
will still have men willing to risk
victions, have literally nothing In '
common with jar. Booth, and it is
amazing that Mr. Booth's cam-;
palgn managers have made a bid
for their support. -Why
Mr. Booth?
from the wet viewpoint. It is their lives for others
Letters From the People
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YOLK BUTTER
R
ECENTLY the price of butter
dropped two and one. half
cents, whereupon the Ore
conian. under the heading.
"Your Bultei", said:
There was" a two and a half cent
rut in the prtee of butter In Port
land yesterday. The tariff is the
principal caus
Two days later, there was a two
and a half cent advance in the
price of butter in Portland.
Though asked to do so, the
Oregonlan has never explained
whether the tariff was the "prin
cipal cause" of the advance. An
eloquent silence has since per
vaded the Oregonian's editorial
columns on the subject of "Your
Butter."
Yesterday, there was another
two and a half cent advance In
the price of butter in Portland.
Since the Oregonlan declares "the
tariff was the principal cause" of
the two and a half cent decline, is
it,, speaking as an expert, of the
opinion also that the "tariff was
the principal cause" of the two I certain alliances, and
two and a half cent advances?
Meanwhile, as a renowned ex
pert on tariffs and butter, does the
Oregonlan think the hole was
punched in the doughnut, or was
the doughnut built around the
hole?
svuuu p.pucy tor me wet. ana ary
issue -to go to tbe people straight
on its merits,- to be decided strictly
on its merits. 1
The plan pledges the dry forces
to a , strict neutrality between all
parties. It pledges strict neutral
ity between all candidates. And
on the other hand, the parties
through their proper officers are
pledged to a strict neutrality and
me candidates ror governor are
pledged to strict neutrality In the
j wet and dry fight.
The plan clears the atmosphere
for the drys. It clears the atmos
phere for the wets.
Naturally, the dry and wet issue
has no place In political alliances.
Whenever leadership in that ques
tion form3 a working agreement
with one party or another, or with
one candidate or another, it con
fuses the issue. It complicates
the question by hitching it up with
other questions.
There is already one Prohibition
party, and it has its own candi
dates. From the dry standpoint
it would be a mistake to have two
Prohibition parties or three Pro-.)
hibltion parties, all with candi
dates and one wet party, as would
be the case if another than the
course mapped out by the Anti
Saloon League and the Committee
of 100 had "been pursued. From
the wet standpoint, it would be un
desirable, for nothing is more im
portant to the wet forces than to
have the issue divorced from un-
be settled
- (Communications cent to Tbe Journal for
publication la this department aboald be writ
tea on only one aide of the paper, abould not
exceed SOU words in length and muat be ac
companied by tbe .name and addresa of tbe
fender. It thm writer doe not (tea Ire to
bav tbe name published, be elouid so state.)
"plsenaainn la tbe greatest of an reform
er, -r.it rationalise everything it touches. It
robs principles of aU false sanctity and
throws them back on their reasooableneea. It
they bare no reasonableness, it ruthlessly
crcahea them oat of existence and seta up Its
own conclualona in their stead." Woodrow
Wilson. .
To Fight the Army Worm'.
Portland, July 25. To the editor of
The Journal Thinking perhaps your
readers might be glad to know of sure
death to the army worm, which is
visiting our city and lying waste its
beautiful lawns and gardens, I give
you for publication a formula that will
do tha work. I tried several prepara
tions on the market, to no avail. This
was given me by a man who had
fought this pest and conquered.
I understand these worms travel In
thousands upon thousands, creating
devastation wherever they go. and
Cleveland man may have exercised ! i0110 up?n 1,8 onc6 la 15 to 30 rears.
the earth.
A FEW SMILES
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
The New "Yorker was descanting on
the glories of Broadway.
"Tbe streets are I '" "24 '
blase with light
a - veritable r to t."
he said. "Why
there is one' elec
tric sign with 100,
000 lights."
; "Doesn't it make
It rather conspicu
ous r asked his English inend.
I
MM
The Serious Girl
X always work to
be engaged at a
higher salary than
the year before.
The Frivolous Girl
And I always try
to be engaged to a
higher salary than
than the year before. Puck.
The appeal is an attempt to put
a premium upon cowardice. It Is
inconceivable that the courts will
place an interpretation upon life
and accident policies such that a
man must think first of the com
pany's treasury and, second, of
human beings in daneer. The
poor judgment, but he sought to
save others. "Why should his
widow be penalized because she
married a man who responded to
a call for)help?
DR. YVTTHyCOMBE AGAIN
T
A PHYSICAL AUDIT
HERE are those who believe
in a working understanding
between the governor and the
legislature.
Dr. Withycombe has that con
viction. He saidso in his Albany
speech. He said: ;
What we want Is to have the legis
lative and executive to work In har
mony, and when we do that we will
solve this question of appropriations.
We will then get down to good, sound
and sane business, and there will be
no logrolling in politics, but It will
be clean and harmonious.
Many people, on the other hand,
think that plan would be too "har
monious." They think it too "har
monious" for this rough and cruel
world of ours, in which legisla
tures meet, put up jobs, pull off
schemes, roll logs and raise Cain.
Still, it has to be admitted that
there are two sides to every ques
tion, and, as Dr. Withycombe said
at Brownsville, there are those
who oppose the single item veto.
for once and all on itB merits. , Dr. Withycombe himself de-
From every viewpoint, the ac- clared against the single Item veto
tlon of the dry leaders an the j in his Brdwnsville speech. He de
political leaders is sound. State- j clared . it to be a "two-edged
wide prohibition is an issue pe-1 sword." He said:
One cannot expect to kill them all
with one application, as they hide dur
ing the day beneath leaves, dried grass,
boards and like, but by saturating the
ground and covering all plant life, also
freely applying the emulsion about the
root of plants, you can exterminate
hundreds with one application. Great
care must be taken not to get the
spray too strong. One quart to 20
will effectually do the work.
"Following Is the formula: 2 pounds
whale oil soap, cost 10 cents a pound;
3 gallons kerosene, cost 15 cents gal
lon; 1 gallon boiling water,; total x:ost
65 cents. Cut soap into small pieces.
Pour over this the boiling water, add
the kerosene, and stir constantly for
20 minutes or until soap is thorough
ly dissolved. Dilute 1 quart of the
emulsion with 20 quarts of cold water.
Sprinkle tfver lawns, gardens In fact,
all vegetation. It will not harm flow
ers, grass or garden.
One application will not exterminate
the pests, as It is impossible to cover
the ground with one application, but
one-will get immediate results.
This emulsion will exterminate
slugs, caterpillars in fact, is sure
death to all garden pests. It will
not harm utensils used in mixing, but
rather acts as a good cleanser.
Anyone wishing further information
may call Tabor 1908.
ROSE P. KINNE.
nnie '
Harry Lauder was being dined by
friends at the Lambs club. New York,
one evening, and of course rec4pro-
cated by entertain
ing his hosts. The
S o o t c h comedian
has an endless fund
of stories. '
"A Dundee farm
er, who lived not
far from my
home In bo
Scotland," Lauder tola his trlends,
"employed a farm hand named Sandy.
"Here, Sandy.' said tie one day.
gang roon and gie the coos a cabbage
each, but mln' ye gle the biggest to
the coo that gives the maist milk.
"Sandy departed to do his master's
bidding. Upon his return the old
farmer asked him if he had done as
he was told, and had divided out the
cabbages according to merit.
" Aye, maister,' replied the laddie,
'I gied 'em a cabbage head, and hung
the' biggest on the pump handle.' "
EMPLOYERS are beginning to
realize that health is a great
factor in the efficiency of
their employes.
Errors in judgment are made be
cause of some" physical defect not
outwardly apparent.
In this connection a surprising
discovery was recently made by a
New York City bank. It had a
physical examination made of all
' Its . employes with the following
result: One hundred per cent of
the bank'B workers were found to
; be abnormal and on the road to
diseases of heart, lungs, kidneys
or blond vessels. Every Individual
had some ailment which would in
evitably drag him down to Invalid
ism and shorten his lfe unless In
tel Usarot measures were taken to
provide a remedy.
Because of disclosures like this
the New York health department
is preparing to inaugurate a move
ment which eventually would mean
a thorough physical examination
at least once' a year of every man,
woman and chfld in the city. Com
missioner Gold water calls attention
tor the fact that while precautions
are taken as. to sanitary conditions
hot dreamed of a generation ago,
yet almost no advance has been
made to check the progress of lat
ent communicable disease from one
employe to another, a serious dan
ger, especially in crowded work
rooms. Great progress has been
, made during recent years in pro
't motlng child hygiene and now it Is
proposed to add the teaching and
enforcement of adult hygiene.
A thorough examination made In
time might check, organic disease.
The average length of life has
risen approximately from 20 years
in tbe sixteenth century to approxi
mately 40 years at present. There
Is no question that an additional
; gain of from two-i to five years
can be made provided the knowl
edge of premonitory 6ignals of dis
ease Is applied.
i From a selfish point, even, it is
clear that It is to the interest of
i the employer and the state to make
ra physical audit of their workmen.
VNSCTIAJITJOXO THE EGGS 1
culiarly its own. It has support
ers and opponents In the leading
parties. To attempt to partyize it
by making it a sideshow to either
of the parties would lead to con
fusion and complexity, and prevent
the kind of decision that every
body wants, to wit: a decision, on
whether or . not Oregon shall be
dry strictly on that issue alone,
unencumbered, unmixed and with
out entangling alliances.
So settled, the question will be
really settled and cease to be so
much a subject of agitation.
AN OLD STORY
P
OW can you unscramble
eggs?" asked the late J
Morgan. V .
If he could be restored
to t the flesh the great financier
I mlght learn something from the
' government's" process, in unscram
bling the New Haven eggs. v;
, He might also learn from the
, administration's ; trust regulation
plan how to prevent eggs from be-
ring scrambled. ;When he asked
f the question there was on ' the
i statute books - a decision riddled
i anti-trust law which permitted the
scrambling of , eggs and gave . im
'munity to the scramblers. ( There
. was ho protection for the. eggs of
v the shareholder and- the shipper.
It was a good old standpat.doc
1 trine to leave the trusts alone until
they becamo outrageous v in the
ITTSBURG papers are com
plaining because the project
for a canal between that city
and Lake Erie, at Ashtabula,
is opposed by. the railroads. It
is an old story. I Railroad opposi
tion to use of waterways -and the
building of canals is a matter of
record. Use of the cheaper route
will, force down rajhroad rates, and
that is not whatVshort sighted
railroad officials want.
The Buffalo News directs atten
tion to railroad act'.vity in opposi
tion to water routes. When New
York's barge canal scheme was on
foot, the. News says, the railroads
employed a regular force of men
to fight it. One man sued the
railroads for a balance of $5000
due him on contract for fighting
the canal project. He had been
paid $5000 by the roads, but they
refused the other $5000 after they
lost their fight to prevent construc
tion of the canal.
At Pittsburg, the canal is de
manded as a means of reducing
the freight charge on coal and ore
and iron and steel products. The
Pittsburg rpapers openly charge the
fight against the canal to the rail
It is a short-sighted policy on
the part of the roads. It would be
better for the roads to have wa
terways to carry the heavy traffic.
t-asmg, tne uguter business and
more profitable fast freight. Thev
have never yet comprehended that
waterways with lower freight rates
win develop a country and make
double or quadruple existing traffic.
But,' the- roads take the other
course. That is why they are
fighting the Pittsburg canal. That
is wby all the railroad newspapers,
uuaer cover or a falo rrv
"pork" are trying to beat the
rivers and harbors bill.
COWARDICE AND THE LAW
Now that (single item veto) looks
splendid, but it looks to me like it
would give the governor power to do
anything he likes, that any tendency
for (spite would be greatly aided. It
would afford a splendid chance for a
man who had a little spite to make It
a sharp two-edged sword by which he
could run the legislature. I am very
skeptical about this.
Dr. Withycombe's hostility
against the single Item veto was
declared with equal emphasis In
his speech before the Civic League
at Portland. In that speech he
said the single item veto is a "two
edged sword." He said:
It would give room for an execu
tive of opposite tendency to work
political revenges that would prove
dangerous,
Legislatures are legislatures.
Governors are governors. People
naturally differ about them.
What Dr. Withycombe wants is
the "legislature and the executive
to work in-harmony" as he said In
hi3 Albany speech. The kindly
doctor says with two branches
thus standing in together, all would
be serene, and "there would be
no, logrolling and it would be dean
and harmonious.".
anyway, nearly everybody with whom
I converse in my business none of
whom, by the way, are liquor dealers
declares that prohibition in this state
win "carry with a whoop." One of
the reasons for this confidence is tha
fact that a war-is on between the vine
yard people and the Royal Arch, a
secret liquor dealers' order. The lat
ter has promoted an initiative measure
that will go on the ballot providing
that once a precinct, municipality or
district votes on the liquor question,
another vote cannot b taken for eight
years. The vineyard people declare
the cltlxenry will not stand for any
such curtailment of their rights, and
that the prohibition cause will be
helped by the open rebellion being
waged against the Royal Arch on ac
count of its activity.
H. S. HARCOURT.
SMALL CHANGE
One man's automobile may be an
other man's juggernaut. ,
'
Abuse someone and we always find
an appreciative, audience.
'
It's easy for a two faced person to
manufacture a barefaced lie.
A woman isn't necessarily indus
trious because she has a busy tongue.
A woman with a secret to tell never
forgives another, woman who already
knows It. '
. -
Bom good people would refuse to
near the dove or peace cooing even
If It had a voice like the siren on a
fire boat.
It Is a safe bet that the "wasp"
waists which the grrls are going to
wear will result In many a fellow get
ting stung.
An Englishman has discovered in
an Egyptian sarcophagus jewelry 6000
years old. Some Egyptian damsel
must have left it on the washstand.
When it comes to errands, no boy
Is ashamed to put off today what
can just as well be done two weeks
from today, when the folks may have
forgotten it.
We regret to note that Ven bar
ranca's desire to treat with Vic Huerta
on the battlefield will not be gratified.
Vic is now headed for Europe, and
hereafter will do all of his treating In
Paris.
A girl may ask all kinds of ques
tions during the courtship so that he
will think she thinks him a second
Solomon, and after marriage give him
the pitiful look every time he opens
Ms mouth.
The Mobile St Ohio railroad an
nounces that it will spend 15,000,000
on a new bridge at Carlo and $1,125,000
for equipment regardless of freight In
crease or Psychological business de
pression. This looks like shockingly
uniair treatment oi the calamity
r.owiers.
OUEGOJT SIDELIGHTS
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred Lockley.
Preparations for the Arate carnival ' In Hit W. W. Walter, an Ortron.
are reported In the Fort Orford Trib- pioneer of 1S4E and an unci, of Mrs.
un am rnln. ma.-,-tlv An " with n.rv. i T v , na an UHCle Ol Mrs.
Benjamin Cornelius of this city,, en
listed for the Cayuse war. In writinr
i about his experiences he says: "We all
i
une aa croinr merrily en 'with every
thing pointing to the biggest and roost 1 0,"JMI1B uorneuus or this city, , en- u
successful gathering in the history of listed for the Cayuse war. In writinr
tht town. . . i . l , . . . ,
i ms experiences ne says: "We .!!
Jacksonville Post". Building lm- jnt down to Portland to get outfitted. - .,
provements are plcklnr up in tnls vi- We ferried across the Columbia to Van " 1
clnlty. Contractor Kick received a eouvP ... i
carioaa or dressed lumber recently and r wiuiuo
has disposed of almost all of it in tbe
past lew days.
Though we rolled them high on the
Fourth," exclaims the Agness corre
spondent of the uold Beach Uiobe, "it
will be a mild affair as compared with
the green corn and melon carnival
that is scheduled to take place in a
few weeks. There will be no roof left
on tbe sky when we pull off this
stunt."
A Hlllsboro paper." says the Banks
Herald, "notes that advertising in tne
newspapers' exclusively was responsi
ble ror tne bis: attendance rrom outside
points at the Fourth c4 July celebra- j
tton mere, certainly, uertainiy. Ana
this was one of the papers outside of
Hlllsboro in which the advertising
was done.
Indorsing the modernising of Joseph,
which is now in active progress, the
Herald says: "Several much needed
cement crosswalks are being built on
Mill street. The work of putting in
cement sidewalk on lower Main street
goes merrily on. It will look more
like a town when cement walks reach
clear to the depot. Without good
streets and walks a town tooks too
much like an Indian village."
Continuing the subject of tourist r
sorta, the Hood River News says:
"Probably no county in the state can
excel Hood River in the beauty of
us mountain retreats. jvi present i r th ordP firm ,., thM
they, are enjoyed almost exclusively ! !?r"
Dy llood River people, dui wnen moou
River county is no longer "bottled up'
and when tne tourists come to learn
the north side to above the Cascades
where we built a raft and crossed to
the south side of the Columbia, not
far from where Hood River now is,
"A company of jlO men. had been
sent up to The Dallos to hold' the Wis- -sion
property. They had their horses
out gracing with some of the volun
teers acUng as herders. The men witS
the horses noticed a couple of stray
horses cross the narrow valley, one
of the men Jumped on his saddle horse
and started to round up the two stray
r.orses. As soon as he had gotten close
to the horses, the Indians, who were
hiding near by. shot and killed him.
The Indians were mighty shrewd and
clever. Whenever our men were down
the valley, suddenly tbe crest of the
hill would bristle with the Indiana.
They would fire down at us and before
we could get Into action they would'
disappear. We would hurry up the
hill but by the time we had gotten
there the Indians were gone.
"On Willow creek the men were told '
not to fire at anything but Indians.
We did not want the Indians to knew
of our presence. A wolf sneaked Into
the camp between the sentinels and
rosed around some of the eamn fires.
The sentinel saw him hut on account
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of the numberless charming nooks
and crannies to be found clustering
about the base of grand old Mt. Hood,
this section is bound to become one
of the most attractive and Justly pop
ular mountain retreats in the north
UTOPIA AFTER FOUR CENTURIES
WHY SIR. BOOTH?
I
A
CLEVELAND youne man
. was killed in a motordrome
wniie attempting to pull
a fallen motorcycle
from the path of other machines.
He carried . accident insurance, and
the company refused to pay on the
ground that he voluntarily as?
sumed unnecessary risks. ., : The
widow sued, secured Judgment in
the lower court and is now re
spondent in the company's appeal
to the Ohio supreme court.
There is a large question in
volved In this suit. The dead
man's Insurance policy did not
T TURNS out that Polk County
Progressives did not indorse Mr.
Booth.
The story of the" endorse
ment, as published in the Ore
gonlan, always did sound lishy.
If there is one known reason why
a Progressive should suoDort Mr.
Booth, it has never been ' made !
public.
Nobody has ever heard Mr.
Booth calling upon the people to
go out into the highways and by
ways to fight for the reforms La
Follette stands for. Nobody has
ever heard the clarion voice of Mr.
Booth summoning the Republican
masses to turn away from the lead
ership of Penrose, Cannon and Al
drich. Nobody ever heard a bugle
call from Mr. Booth, urging' the
people to conserve their timber re
sources, to revise the tariff down
wardto curb the" aggressions of
the trusts, to pass an Income tax,
to fight the Oregon assembly, to
defend direct election of senator,
or to aid other great movements
of reform that have been over
shadowing Issues for the past ten
years."--; - ' .y..'
Not in all these years when
great struggles were on, was Mr.
Booth once seen on the firing line,
pleading for reforms or appealing
for justice and equality for all the
people. It was not because of any
leadership in the reforms that are
swiftly taking place in the country
that; Mr. Booth was brought for
ward as a candidate, and that is
what makes it strange and wlerd
that Progressives, or insurgent Re
publicans or La Follette Republi
cans or any. of the thousands who
voted for Roosevelt in 1 9 1 2, should
be asked to support Mr, Booth. :
The Republicans who went out
of their party to vote for Roosevelt
in 1912 'voted,, squarely against all
that Mr.' Booth has ever stood for.
Those of . them, whether registered
Progressives or progressive Repub-
J. R. Kellogg's War Record.
La Grande, Or., July 85. To - the
Editor of The Journal In a contribu
tion by Professor J. B. Horner of Cor
vallls. In a recent issue of The Journal,
referring particularly to a fife and
flute belonging to the late J. R. Kel
logg of La Grande, there are erroneous
statements which should be corrected.
It la said that these instruments were
used by Major Kellogg in Sherman's
march to the sea. Mr. Kellogg settled
in this valley in 1862, and was here
two years before Sherman left Atlanta
on the historic march.
Mr. Kellogg never made any pre
tenses of having a military record. A
history of Union and Wallowa counties
published before h3 death, and with
bis approval or that part of Jt per
taining to himself, says: "He (Major
Kellogg) enlisted in company I, Fourth
Iowa infantry, serving as fifer for
the company and attending the rallies
until they wrre ready to go to the
front, and then he was appointed fife
major; but after one months service
he was taken sick so as to be inca
pacitated for further service, and was
forced to resign. In 1862, he fitted
nut the popular ox team outfit and
measured the plains from Iowa to the
Grand Ronde valley."
I do not question Professor Horner's
fine tribute to the excellent character
of the late Major Kellogg as a man
and a worthy citizen of this com
munity, but I do protest against such
errors, in the interest of authentic his
tory for the future generations of
Oregon, and especially the proposal to
place the tit and flute with the Ore
gon Historical Boclety as mementoes
of the culminating exploit of the Civil
war. And I am satisfied that Major
Kellogg himself would vigorously re
sent such an imposition if he were
alive and with us today.
HATTIE J. ECKLET.
The Saloon Before tha Law.
Portland, July 28. To the Editor of
The Journal The supreme court of
Missouri has said, "The supreme prin
ciple of the common law is the publio
good."
The Illinois supreme court has de
clared that "the public welfare is the
underlying principle of the common
law." No man has any inherent -or
any other kind of right to do that
which Is wrong.
In Missouri vs. Blxam (63 S. W.
828) the supreme court of that state
declares that "the liquor traffic nat
urally breeds disorder and tends to
pauperism and crime."
The United States supreme court
in the case of Lelsey vs. Hardin (135
U. S. 159) said, "The general and un
restricted sale of Intoxicating liquors
tends to produce idleness, disease, dis
order, pauperism and crime."
Chief Justice Coleridge of the king's
bench said, "Nine tenths of all crimi
nals that come before the court are
made criminals by the saloon. If we
could make England sober, we could
shut up nine tenths of her prisons."'
- Gladstone said, "The saloon' Is a
curse which Inflicts more and greater
calamities upon the world - than the
three historic scourges of wav pesti
lence and famine combined." Is it
our business to perpetuate such a
curse? :
We are dealing with the liquor traf
fic as It is. not what it might be
under' certain conditions that do jiot
L exist. We are dealingwlth human na
ture as wq find it, not as it might be
or should be. It is for the people to
find some speedy solution of the great
liquor problem. It will not vacate the
premises unless ordered. Who. can
order but the people? ,
JOHN G. HESSLER.
On Compensation for Healing.
Portland. July 28. To the Editor of
The Journal The Journal of Sunday
contained a news dispatch relating to
a recent decision of a New York court
in the case of a Christian Science prac
titioner. May, I be permitted to add
a brief comment?
The several opinions in this case
consume 39 sheets of typewriting, but
the gist of the whole decision can
be put in a few words. Although the
present decision is not final, the ma
jority of the Judges have ruled to
the following effect: It is allowable
Lto practice religious tenets whioh in
clude healing, unless the practitioner
provides an office or place for the
work and receives payment from those
who offer it. if he does this, he must
have a license to practice medicine.
It is to be observed, therefore, that
this Judgment rests wholly upon the
alleged impropriety of receiving com
pensation for a service rendered. On ,
the other hand, a former chief Judge
of the highest court in New York. Ed
gar Montgomery Cullen, recently said
In a publio address: "In all Christian
churches prayers are offered for
the recovery of the sick, and all
decent Christians, Friends possibly ex
cepted, believe in supporting their
clergymen. The Christian Scientist
has exactly the same right to be paid
for his service."
Which of these views Is correct may
be debated by Judges, but the ultimate
right of decision belongs to a larger
court. If the present ruling correctly
Interprets the law of New York, and
the statutes as thus construed do not
conform to the sense of Justice held
by the people, the law can be changed
and will be changed.
A very large percentage of Chris
tian Science healing" is done without
compensation; and Christian Scienco
has been commercialized to exactly the
same extent that Christianity Was com
mercialized In the days Of Christ
Jesus. When he sent out his disciples
to preach the gospel and heal the sick,
ho said: "The laborer is worthy of
his hire." The difference between the
compensation which they received pur
suant to this instruction and precept is
simply a difference In the conditions
of human life then and now, there and
here; that Is to say, a difference In
the manner or medium of payment.
Christian healing Is Just as much
entitled to compensation when done in
an office convenient to Broadway as
when done in a Judean synagogue or
at the gates of Lyetra.
. PAUL STARK SEELEY.
From the San Francisco Bulletin.
Sir Thomas More published his
"Utopia" Just four centuries ago this
coming year.
"The rich are ever striving," he
wrote, in extracts quoted by the his
torian Green, "to pare away some
thing further from the dally wages
of tbe poor by private fraud, and
even by public law so that the wrong
already existing (for it is a wrong
that those from whom the state de
rives most benefit should receive
least reward) Is made yet greater by
tbe law of the state. . . The
rich devise every means by which
they may, in the first place, secure
to themselves what they amassed by
wrong, and then take to their own
use and profit, at the lowest possible
price, the work and labor of the poor.
And so soon as the rich decide on
adopting these devices in the name of
the public, hen they become law."
"If you allow your people to be
badly taught, their morals to be cor
rupted from childhood, and then when
they are men punish them for the
very crimes to which they have been
trained in childhood what Is this
but to make thieves and punish
them?"
Punishment, thought More, ought to
aim at "nothing else but the destruc
tion of vice and tbe saving of men."
rHe anticipated the parole system when
he urged a plan of such nature that
I In "Utopia," or
More s ideas or it
"Nowhere," as
are summed up
by Green, "the aim of legislation is
to secure the welfare, social, indus
trial, intellectual, religious, of .the
community at large, and of the labor
class as the true basis of a well-or
dered commonwealth. The end of its
labor laws was simply the welfare of
the laborers."
Revolutionary stuff, this, in More's
time, but perhaps not so revolution
ary nor so very far distant now.
More was also a prison reformer.
roam through the camp without molet
Ing him. In the morning they dis
covered where the wolf had dropped
his ramrod and they found where th
wolf had been an Indian.
"We had the peace commissioners
with us,' consisting of Joel Palmer, Dr.
Newell, and one or two others. They
were going up to see If the Indian
would give up the murderers of Dr,
i Whitman.
"After having a brush with the In
dians near the mouth of tha Deschut;
we moved on to Wells Springs, the
other side of Butter creek. An In
dian came out with a white flag ask
ing for a talk. Colonel ailllman.Tom
McKay, Charles McKay, our -interpreter,
and a few others, rode out to
meet the Indian. The Indian with
the flag said that there were shout
2000 Indiana near by, consisting of
Spokanes, Coeur d'Alenes Pen P
Oreilles and upper river Indians and
Cayuaes.
"Thachlef. who accompanied the flag.
i said the Cayuse Indians had told him
I-
"none Is hopeless or in despair to re.
cover his former state of freedom by ! that the whites were killing the Hud
giving good tokens and likelihood of ' son's Bay people and tne coast tribes
himself that he will ever after that
live a true and honest man."
"There are many things in the com
monwealth of Nowhere," wrote More,
as he closed his book, "which I rather
wish than hope to see adopted in our
own."
of Indians, and had killed Tom McKay,
who was a great friend of the In
dians. Colonel Gilliman told him that
none of these things was true, that
McKay was alive and was With the
troops. McKay was brought forward
and told the Indians that the Cayuaes
had not told the truth and that the
white men were coming up In the coun
try to punish the murderers of Dr.
More suffered the fate of the best '
and wisest of men under a desDotio
government, and was beheaded by or- I Whitman and the others who had been
der of a murderer known in history ! killed. McKay advised all of the other
as Henry the Eighth. If be coulo I tribes to withdraw and let the whits, .
have looked ahead four centuries, to , men settle with Cayuses. -see
mankind on the borders of a land "Grey Eagle, who was a Cayuse medl
in whioh he would have recognized ' "'ne man, turned upon Tom McKay and
many of the features of his own lm-sld he was going to kill him. Grey
aglned country, he might have diedjagle had claimed he could swallow
more happily. the white man's bullets, and, on ar- t
Those who sre tired of anniver- count of his strong medicine, he woujd
series of battles and political ups and not be harmed. Tom McKay thrw hl -
uuwiio niacin cu ccicuraiti j wdik b j f . ...... .. . - ,
w M . . V- , - S kiM - . HhA, him Irt J I
iuur uunurcaia anniyersary next ' mmi swuva ivr ."v.
vmaw I v, mAiitli h hnllot killing- him in
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WEEK'S NEWS OF SHADY FINANCING
Ella M. Finney's Figures.
: Sacramento, CaL, July 26. To tbe
Editor of The Journal I am temporar
lly located In this city, four blocks
from the state capltol, and am a fre
quent visitor to it, conversing freely
with officials of the state, and strange
enough, not one of these gentlemen is
as wise as Ella M. Finney in relation
to the amount of money Invested In
property it is alleged will be confis
cated it California shall vote for pro
hibition this fall. She contend the'
claim of the liquor Interests that
$700,000,000 will be tbe damage, la cor
rect, though gentlemen in office hero
and well Informed business men de
clare that no one can correctly state.
By iohn M. Oskison.
If it wasn't actually tragic, the rec
ord' of the get-rlch-quick tribe as it
is unrolled from day to day would be
funny. What a Joy it would bi to
publish a bright little weekly filled
with the doings and personalities of
exponents of Irregular finance!
I'd call such a paper "The Suckers'
Guide."
And what a bunch of libel suits I'd
bring- upon the unfortunate publisher!
This week, however, I'd be safe from
libel and have enough material to
fill a good many pages.
There'd be Wilkinson, promoter of
a great industrial dream city in Ten
nessee; be and his International Bank
ers' Alliance of London would make
a very Interesting story for the suck
ers." with their project to sell six mil
lions of stocks and six millions of
bonds to investors in Europe and
America. And the "Colonel" himself,
perfect in his role of big business
representative, wearing a hearty, bluff
manner and talking like one of the
financial princes of the earth.
I'd put in the man who testified in
the United States court in the case
of a failed New York realty company.
the one who said that he himself had
believed in the scheme so thoroughly
that he had obtained an advance of
1100,000 from his father's estate to
put into the company, had taken $2000
each of mis two daughters' savings, and
had taften $1000 from his mother-in-law
(which she had received as in
surance upon the death of her hus
band). The candy making corporation
whose shares a New York broker was
seeking to market at $10 each, while
an auction sale established a price ot
$1.10 a share, ought to be given space.
Also, I'd have a little piece In "The
Sucker's Guide" bout the sale at
auction of $30,000 of first mortgage 4
per cent bonds of a western railway
project for tbe sum of $400. Was the
man who paid that price an optimist,
as he has been called?
A year or so ago I was hopeful that
the promoters who appeal to the pub
lic with rainbow arguments and shaky
securities were "on the run" because
of the work of the postofflee depart
ment. But they seem to be coming
back; is it another sign of imminent
prosperity?
-Someone ought to summons courage
to back my "Suckers' Guide." ,
stantlv.
i the rim of rocks and we attacxea tne
Cayusps. We had bought an old bras)
cannon which had been mounted on a,
wagon at The Dalles. The fighting
continued all day. The old cannon .
seemed to terrorlr.e the Indiana Thre .
were 1 1 whit mm Injnrd in the fight
Oreen McDonald from near Albany,
while, firing from back of a blge sag
brush, was shot In the chest. W
marched on to Whitman station, wber
we found the blackened ruins of the
mission buildings. We found thst the
coyotes hsd dug Up the bodies of Dr.
Whitman and thors, so wft reburlsd .
thm. In one of the skulls we founq
tamahawk. which was still held fast ;
where it had cut through the skull."
Mrs. 1'nrnh Gives Testimony.
Portland. July 28. T the Editor of
The Journal I have not lived so lopg
as Mrs. Duniway, nor can I call all
Oregon women my daughters, but 1
can lay claim to some experience In
suffrage work, as my maiden speech t
for that cause was made more than 40 1 ,. vT.v.-, withhoM mv son
years ago. and X have been making fPOm ,t. etfeets. It becomes a matter
uu(e bpto i w un. emu at - -hall be sacrlficeO.
the near future, let them roll up a big
majority for a dry Oregon this fall.
The attitude of Prohibitionists upon
woman's ballot is so well known that
it need not be stated, were it not ior
the effect tha constant Iteration of the
charge that they have opposed.it may
have upon women who vote this fall.
It is well known that the Prohibition
party has been outspoken for woman's
ballot since 1873.
How horribly illogical Is a woman
whose sons have escaped the saloon so
far as their own personal habits are
rnncanuMi wh advocates Its survival.
f I believed the Oregon saloon need-
fi--the interests of our state I
ll 1
II TU rj.: I
l lie rJKUUIB musa
1 1 J
avF at'n - AnnrAflrnatA tha imnnnr
i mnnaxr fnvsfctswt In hsAf- .. STiii liminr
licans, who still cling to their con producing lands ana chattels. , But,
say emphatically that the men of this
country are looking to tha newly en
franchised women to help them "right
wrongs, among which none is of -more
importance than the abolition of the
traffic in intoxicants.
In the territory which Mrs. Duniway
refers to as her "bailiwick" I have had
some experience. When in 1912. as
president of the Oregon W. X T. U., 1
traveled all over the state for suffrage
the question I was most frequently
asked was, "Will the. women help to
outlaw the saloon?" This not from
party Prohibitionists alone, nor from
those looked upon aa reformers, but
from all classes. Almost daily scores
of men Would say, "If I thought the
women would abolish the , saloons I
would vote to enfranchise them." In
my Judgment It was this hope that
gave us the. majority for suffrage in
Oregon. Certainly no help came from
the liquor Interests.
In Montana, where the suffrage bat
tle is now being waged and where I
spent almost tnree raontns in cam
paign, tbe liqutr organ of the state Is
fighting "in the open" th suffrage
amendment. If Montana carries this
amendment, as I think it will. It will
be primarily to secure the help of the
women to vote out the saloon. If Mrs.
Duniway Is receiving letters from that
state urging otherwise, let me assure
her that they do not represent the ma
jority of the people of tbe state, if
Oregon women wish to assist in the
enfranchisement of women in other
states where elections will be held In
ADA WALLACE UNRUH.
Measures to Mend, Tax Laws.
St. Johns, Or., July I. To the Ed
itor of The Journal During the pri
mary campaign all candidates foxstats
representative or senator promct the
voters they would, if nominated, do
all In their power to reduce the run
ning expenses of the state and to so
modify tha tax law that the payment
of taxes would be less burdensome. I
understand several persons or bodies
of men aro engaged on measures which
they think, 'k or pretend to think, will
produce good results. I have been In
formed that some of these measures
to be tendered are practlcaly complet
ed. If this la so. would It not be wise
for the authors to make the same pub
lic, that honest criticism may be bad?
There may be weak points xr vicious
features in some ' of ' tbe proposed
measures that public discussion wouldi
cause to be eliminated and nearer per
fect measures result. The tax law
ought to oe as perrect ana ' just a
measure as can be drawn, for it will
have much to do with the real pros
perity of the state. "
A vicious or unjust tax system has
a tendency to keep intending settlers
away, and likewise drives money Into
hiding. X therefore suggest that these
curative measures be brought forth by
their authors, and at as early a date
as possible. D. C. LEWIS. .
Nature Ixnrer.
I love to hear In the early morn
The shrill clock's wild alarum bell.
The tootle of the motor horn.
The siren's loud, romantic yell.
I love to har th dishes crash.
I love to hear the missus call.
"Get up and take your morning bplash
And cat your fragrant codfish ball."
I love to hear the trolley car
Go snarling round a deadly curve
And miss a teamster not too far
And hear him praise the carman
nerve.
I love to hear the clock strike eight
As to my labors I cavort.
And when I am three minutes late
I love to hear my old boss snort.
I lovethe rattle, bang and rear
The 'noises of the busy street;
me general ciamor i love more
Of all the silly folk I meet.
Is this not loving nature, pray?
I love my kind. yes. up and down;
I love and revel In each day
The "human nature" of the town!
The Consistent Oregonlan.
From the Salem Journal..
Before the primaries the Oregonlan
insisted on Just one thing In Its candi
date for governor he most believe In
the right of the executive to veto
separate Items in the general appro
priation bill. And now It Is support
ing Dr. Withycombe, who Is making
a special fight on that principle, and
opposing Dr. Smith, who is in favor of
It. The Oregonlan Is consistent only
in its Inconsistency.
Around the World.
Egyptian cotton crop for.Ulf-14 Is
below normal In quality. j
Cotton growing Is being tried In
Panama canal tone. I
Many . forgeries- of "antiques" have!
been discovered In Damascus.
. Swatow, . China, orange crop la re
ported small and of poor quality. :
Anglo-American exposition opens in
May In London, closing In September.
Vicious and I'npatriotlc.
From the Indienapolls News.
Samuel M. Foster, president of the
German-American National bank or
Fort Wayne, recently received a "con
fidential Inquiry" from Wilbur r.
Wakeman. of the American Protective
Tariff league, asking as to his pay
roll for a certain week this year as
compared with the corresponding week
last year. "We." wrote Mr. Wakeman,
"earnestly ask your cooperation In this -Inquiry."
He did not get much co-
operation." but he did get an answer.- ;
Mr. Foster wrote:
"It would be more creditable to your
organization If would use s funds
along lines that would tend to ,.,
.v tMidfnev toward business
depression that may exist, rather thaa
along lines that nave a ''
enre toward Increasing this tendency.
The purpose of your Inquiry Is so
clearly political, and the intent to dis
credit the present administration snd
recent legislation so apparent, that this
bank declines to hare anything to do
with It. and feels Justified Inglving
expression to its lark ' of sympathy
with your efforts. It Is such move-
menu, by euch organisations as yours,
that Justify the charge that there is
being made a systematic and dlsloysl
effort to create a condition of mind m
the people of the country that will
bring about and intensify a spirit of
commercial depression. No more dis
creditable and dishonorable thn
could be attempted by men claiming
to be loyal citizens of the republic. As
you very well know, to j-prcad broad
cast over the country any evidence or
argument tending to show the exist
ence of business depression only tends
to produce end be!gbtn this depres
sion. That this Is your Intention and
purpose is revealed in your letter,
though not explicitly stated."
The American Protective Tarlfr
league Is conducted by men who have
for years been fighting for a tariff
subsidy, ana wno exenea - ,
fluence In behalf of the Payhe-Aldrlcn M
bill. ' '
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